County of Aydhab

The County of Aydhab was a small Nubian county located in present-day southern Egypt on the shoreline of the Red Sea. The county was ruled by the House of Bisharyeen, a dynasty of Miaphysite Christian Nubians.

History
Aydhab was the northernmost of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia, located in present-day Aidab on the coastline of the Red Sea in southern Egypt. Aydhab was ruled by the Miaphysite Christian House of Bisharyeen during the 11th century, and it bordered the fellow Nubian kingdoms of Nubia, Makuria, and Suakin. Aydhab was to the south of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt, which proved to be a menace to the kingdoms of northern East Africa. It was only the conflict between the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate and Seljuk Empire and the Shi'ite Fatimids that prevented the Egyptians from moving south and conquering some of the Christian lands.